Spacing your Christmas tree rows. I have never tried this.
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2021
- Thornton's treeland is the largest U-cut Christmas tree farm in Clark County. Glen Thornton the owner let me tour the farm and we talked Christmas trees. One of the few differences we have in our operations is the spacing of his trees. Not just the spacing of the rows, which he does at 5 feet by 5 feet, but the replanting. He has a young tree started next to the bigger one before it is even harvested. He does this in anticipation of the taller tree being sold and then he has an already established tree started next to it.
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Very interesting and informative video. Thankvyou
Spacing is simply driven by what you are trying to accomplish. I worked a relatively small farm (90 acres) many decades ago. We did not mean to be a u-cut. We were growing blocks of trees to be harvested for retail. We wanted trees 5' - 7' with some larger so we planted about 1,000 per acre as we also didn't shear them so tight. That was then in Michigan. I lived for a brief time in Oregon in the '80's. I fell in love with the Noble fir and wanted to start a choose and cut farm. Unfortunately, life got in the way and that never worked out. There was a beautiful tree farm in Newburgh (?) near Tualatin that I loved.
Sorry for the ramblings of an old tree farmer. I miss it very much.
I like to hear you story. I went to college in Newberg.
Yep, we do this. Planting now. If we have a beautiful 7ft tree we’re pretty sure will go next harvest we’ll plant right next to it. Actually the shade of the bigger tree will help the seedling get through our hot dry summer.
Great. Hadn’t even thought about the beneficial shade.
There’s a u-pick up the road from me that plants his trees quite close together. Some of his trees are massive. I do notice though with his operation he doesn’t have as much wild bush come up as I do so I’ll be adopting the closer together method.
I’m in Nova Scotia where we harvest balsam fir. One thing we do to get ahead of years is to pull baby trees in a poor location and relocate them. We pull them out of the ditches where they naturally started but it does give us a few years head start on some. We grow naturally in the Forrest and if you leave a branch on the stump trees will grow up from that too.
Good use of reaources
I planted at 82cm here in the UK where land is expensive. Intended to plant in diamond formation but we didn't have gps so it didn't come out like that. We only produce 7ft max and the British market want's a tight tree so it's not been too bad. If I were doing it again I'd plant at 100cm and get the diamond right even if planting by hand....then at least we could get a ride on mower through!!😂
82 cm would be very tight for around here. Most of the trees I sell are much wider than a meter. But if you typically shape them tight and don’t let them grow tall it should work. Are they all the same age. Or do you have small ones next to big ones.
@@FlanaganHomestead yeah we planted 15000 at that spacing initially, but started thinning some out at 3ft to create a bit more space then we've filled the gaps in subsequent years.
Not the way I'd like it but when you try to get into farming from nothing you have to make sacrifices I guess!
Your trees are looking nice my friend :-) are you shearing the nordmann or form cutting them?
@@thebrokenstringspete thanks I understand the growing pains of a new farm. We are shearing or nordmann
Love it.
Great Video. Thanks for Sharing. We are coming around to tighter spacing as well. Thought process for us is we would like to harvest 1000 per acre. Premium trees. So the more we can safely squeeze in. Gives us Room for less desired and complete loss “cull” trees. Without having to go back and fill in.
What is your current spacing.
@@FlanaganHomestead Most Is 7X6 Giving us Just Over 1000 in an Acre. But Looking to adjust this year to Something A little tighter. WE visited Dulls Tree Farm (Which is really nice) in Indiana as part of our MidAmerica Association Meeting, They also are a little tighter. I think 6.5 x6 But might be 6.5 X 5.5
Insightful stuff yet again Rob . I have been planting 4×4 as it's quite common in Europe . The thinking is probably because moisture rates particularly higher in Ireland / UK etc than USA. Higher productivity per acre be main reason I suspect. However I am changing to 5'×5 for reasons u state Rob on ease of access , u cut system etc. I see in Midwest of US big space is typical and probably needed regard hot summer climate etc.
4x4, that is tight. What height do you typically harvest trees at?
@@FlanaganHomestead 6'-8'. I actually haven't produced first crop for harvest yet. I followed a friend into it who has been at it for years and that's the system he has been using to good success. However he has recently changed and is also putting them wider spaced .
What's going on with the top of his tress, though? A lot of brown needles.
This video was done in the summer we had our hottest day ever. A lot of trees especially the southeast side of them got stressed. Many of my trees looked worse than this. Fortunately the tree that did not die put out nice new growth the following year and looked great.
he doesn't run low line cattle, sheep, or goats between the trees? 5:51